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Trouble comes calling on wheels for
Cong leader
Ludhiana, September 28
Congress leader Amarjeet Singh Tikka has landed in trouble after buying a second hand car allegedly from car thieves.When a police team came to recover the car yesterday, the Congress leader sent them back after making a phone call and asking the team to talk to someone on his cell phone. He also refused to return the stolen
vehicle.
Amarjeet Singh Tikka
Sale of spurious edible oil goes unchecked
Ludhiana, September 28
The recent seizure of 68,350 litres of spurious edible oil from an unlicensed godown in Ludhiana being bottled under different brand names has put a question mark on the genuineness of many lesser-known brands available in the market.
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SKIES SHINE AS EVIL GOES UP IN FLAMES
An effigy of demon king Ravana burst into flames in Ludhiana on Monday.
Tribune photo: Himanshu Mahajan |
Paddy procurement: Traders still in dark
Mandi Ahmedgarh, September
28
Barely a day before the official commencement of procurement of paddy, the administration is yet to announce allocation of procurement agencies to rice shellers and traders.
Shellers not to accept paddy from agencies
Mullanpur Dakha, September 28
Owing to conflict between rice shellers and FCI, Punjab government, paddy farmers are going to have a tough time.
Vijay Dashmi celebrated with fall of Ravana
Ludhiana, September 28
Vijay Dashmi was celebrated with full religious fervour in the city today. Depicting the triumph over the evil, the effigy of Ravana, Meghnath and Kumbhkaran were consigned to flames in various parts of the city.
Dasehra celebrated with fervour
Mandi Ahmedgarh, September 28
The town and surrounding villages today boomed with the sound of exploding crackers marking the conquest of good over evil.
City bids farewell to Goddess Durga
Ludhiana, September 28
After nine days of worshipping, the idol of Goddess Durga was today immersed in the water. After Dakshmi Puja, married women of the community applied “sindoor” on the forehead of Goddess Durga's idol and afterwards applied sindoor on each other’s forehead
also.
Devotees immerse Goddess Durga idol in Sutlej at Ludhiana on Monday. Tribune photo:
Inderjeet Verma
Devotees don’t give two hoots to pollution
Despite HC orders, immerse idols into canal
Mandi Ahmedgarh, September 28
Oblivious to the pollution caused by the immersion of undesirable components into water bodies, thousands of devotees from the town and surrounding localities converged on the banks of
Bathinda, Abohar and Sidhwan branches of the Sirhind Canal to immerse Sanjhi that had been worshiped for the past 10 days at their respective houses.
Devotees throw elements of Sanjhi in Bathinda branch of Sirhind Canal at Jandali Bridge near Ahmedgarh on Monday. Photo by writer
Rare open-heart surgery at CMCH
Ludhiana, September 28
Ankit (10) was suffering from a rare cardiac defect called Gerbode Shunt. He was admitted to Christian Medical College and Hospital (CMCH). Dr HS Bedi, head cardiac surgery, along with his team successfully performed the rare open-heart surgery and bring normalcy in the boy's
life.
All for Bollywood
beauties’ hug
 Ludhiana, September 28
Katrina Kaif, Kareena Kapoor and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan stole the show at the Dasehra mela at Daresi ground here
today. Visitors were seen jostling their way to get close to Bollywood sirens all for a hug and a picture with arms around their shoulders or
waist. Though the Bollywood heartthrobs were not present at the mela site, their life size cutouts made youngsters, especially migrant
labourers, go
wild.
A boy gets a picture clicked with a cutout of Bollywood actor Aishwarya Rai during Dasehra fair in Ludhiana. Tribune photo: Himanshu Mahajan
Stray cattle get shelter
Ludhiana, September 28
Stray cattle in the city are finally getting a home as the Sant Shree Asaramji Gaushala Trust,
Khanpur, has come to their
rescue.
Members of the Sant Shree Asaramji Gaushala Trust during a cattle collection drive in Ludhiana. Photo: Inderjeet Verma
Gurdwara panel, panchayat lock horns
Garhi Tarkhana (Machhiwara), September 28
A tussle over a piece of land in Garhi Tarkhana village — situated adjoining Sirhind Canal — erupted between village panchayat and a gurdwara committee.
SAD-BJP, Cong failed on welfare front: Left
Mandi Ahmedgarh, September 28
Accusing successive governments of failing to provide basic amenities to residents of the border state, Leftists have announced to launch a coordinated struggle for protecting rights of members of all sections of society.
Mandir committees to be felicitated
Ludhiana, September
28
Pandit Shardha Ram Phillauri Memorial Welfare Society has chalked out an elaborate programme to celebrate the birthday of Pandit Shardha Ram
Phillauri, author of famous Hindu prayer, “Om Jai Jagdeesh Hare”, here on October
4.
A few remembered Bhagat Singh
Ludhiana, September 28
Bhagat Singh, who gave the slogan “Inquilab Zindabad”, was remembered today on his birth anniversary. But the freedom fighter was remembered by a few, while others forgot to pay homage to
him.
An elderly man pays tributes to Bhagat Singh on his birth anniversary in Ludhiana on Monday. Photo: Inderjeet Verma
Tewari asks Badal to quit on moral grounds
Ludhiana, September 28
Congress MP from Ludhiana and national spokesperson of the All-India Congress Committee Manish Tewari today asked Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal to quit on moral grounds for his failure to fulfill any promise made by his party in the election
manifesto.
Railway station to have more porters from October
Ludhiana, September 28
There is good news for railway passengers, as they will no longer have to carry their heavy luggage while boarding or disembarking from trains as they were made to do for the last almost a year due to shortage of licensed porters at the railway station
here.
Sadbhavna college students excel
Raikot, September 28
Students of Sadbhavna College of Education for Women here excelled in the examinations held recently by Panjab
University.
Deaf cricket team leaves for Singapore
Ludhiana, September 28
A 15-member Punjab deaf cricket squad left for a 10-day tour of Singapore and Malaysia. The hearing and speech-impaired cricketers, drawn from different parts of the state, would play four matches against the Lankan Lions Cricket Club, two each in Singapore and Malaysia. The tour is being organised by the Deaf Cricketers’ Federation of
Punjab.
Members of the Punjab Deaf Cricket team strike a pose before their departure in Ludhiana on Monday.
Tribune photo: Himanshu Mahajan
Ludhiana teams announced
Ludhiana, September 28
Ludhiana teams were announced today to take part in the second edition of the T-10 Gully Cricket, which will begin tomorrow at Satish Chander Dhawan Government
College.
Sportsmen welfare body office-bearers elected
Ludhiana, September
28
The Ludhiana Sportsmen Welfare Association, which has been working for the last one decade to promote the game of hockey in this part of the state, has been
reorganised.
Athletics meet on Oct 1, 2
Ludhiana, September 28
The District Athletics Association, Ludhiana (DAAL), will organise the Ludhiana District Athletics Championship for boys and girls as well as men and women here at Guru Nanak Stadium on October 1 and 2, according to DAAL general secretary SS
Pannu.
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